MITRE ATT&CKtechnique

T1526 Cloud Service Discovery

Published 2019-08-30 Modified 2026-05-12 Official page ↗
Domain
enterprise
Tactics
Discovery
Platforms
IaaS, Identity Provider, Office Suite, SaaS
Version
1.4
Created
2019-08-30

Description

An adversary may attempt to enumerate the cloud services running on a system after gaining access. These methods can differ from platform-as-a-service (PaaS), to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or software-as-a-service (SaaS). Many services exist throughout the various cloud providers and can include Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Lambda Functions, Entra ID, etc. They may also include security services, such as AWS GuardDuty and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and logging services, such as AWS CloudTrail and Google Cloud Audit Logs. Adversaries may attempt to discover information about the services enabled throughout the environment. Azure tools and APIs, such as the Microsoft Graph API and Azure Resource Manager API, can enumerate resources and services, including applications, management groups, resources and policy definitions, and their relationships that are accessible by an identity. For example, Stormspotter is an open source tool for enumerating and constructing a graph for Azure resources and services, and Pacu is an open source AWS exploitation framework that supports several methods for discovering cloud services. Adversaries may use the information gained to shape follow-on behaviors, such as targeting data or credentials from enumerated services or evading identified defenses through Disable or Modify Tools or Disable or Modify Cloud Log.

Related

Tactic · MITRE ATT&CK (1)

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · uses (7)

  • C0064 AI-Assisted Breach of Mexico's Government Infrastructure campaign
  • S9041 TeamPCP Cloud Stealer software (malware)
  • S9009 TruffleHog software (tool)
  • G1053 Storm-0501 group
  • S1091 Pacu software (tool)
  • S0684 ROADTools software (tool)
  • S0677 AADInternals software (tool)

References